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Dexter Gordon was a big man who did things in a big way. The man who almost single-handedly brought the tenor saxophone into the modern jazz era stood 6 feet 5 inches tall and had a way of making his presence felt. He didn't so much enter a room as take it over.

In the best sense of the term, Bertrand Tavernier's film '' 'Round Midnight'' is an exercise in ancestor worship. The character played by Dexter Gordon, himself a leading jazz saxophonist, is a composite of two of his stylistic forebears, the pianist Bud Powell and the saxophonist Lester Young.

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July 29, 2006, Saturday

ON July 2, family and friends of Mrs. Nellie Monk gathered at St. Peter's Church in Manhattan to pay their last respects to the woman who shared most of her life with the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. Monk and Nellie, as they were known to...

December 15, 1996, Sunday

Dexter Gordon was a big man who did things in a big way. The man who almost single-handedly brought the tenor saxophone into the modern jazz era stood 6 feet 5 inches tall and had a way of making his presence felt. He didn't so much enter a room as...

May 7, 1990, Monday

LEAD: A memorial tribute to the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon is to be held tomorrow from 4 to 6 P.M. at the Oberia Dempsey Community Center, 128 West 128th Street. Mr. Gordon died of kidney failure on April 25 at the age of 67.

May 5, 1990, Saturday

LEAD: Dexter Gordon, one of the great tenor saxophonists and a charismatic figure in the jazz world, died of kidney failure yesterday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He was 67 years old, and had entered the hospital on March...

April 26, 1990, Thursday

In the best sense of the term, Bertrand Tavernier's film '' 'Round Midnight'' is an exercise in ancestor worship. The character played by Dexter Gordon, himself a leading jazz saxophonist, is a composite of two of his stylistic forebears, the pianist...

October 12, 1986, Sunday

Bebop is known to jazz fans as the modern jazz style that Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, Lester Young and other forward-looking players developed collectively in the 1940's. But because the history of jazz has been...